About “Cool Kids”

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First single, not only for the album, but the band itself. Going Platinum in December 2014. Crazy part is the song was nearly left off of their album.

Jamie (singer/guitarist) says the message of the song is simple: the coolest thing you can be is yourself. But more often than not, fans tell the band that they relate to the kids they’re singing about. That they feel like the outsider looking in.

This cry to be like the cool kids… it’s something that everyone kind of goes through whether you want to act like it or not. There’s always somebody out there that you kind of wish, ‘If only I could do this, or do that.’ I think that’s why it connects with people so well.

I think um, Cool Kids is definitely a song that people have been connecting with a lot, and I think um the song for us is a story about a boy and a girl who want to fit in and they see these kids they think are so cool. In reality the message is if being being yourself is cool, then you don’t have to try to be someone else

We didn’t write the song with the intent of, ‘Oh my gosh, I want to write a hit single, and I want people to know our song.’ Obviously you do want that, but when you write, you need to be honest; we wrote this song because we relate to it. Everybody at some point, whether you’re a kid or not, you do have that desire to be like somebody else, and you constantly compare yourself. And it’s an everyday decision to decide not to.

With a cool little story to follow about Katy Perry loving the song too.

I was backstage and she was just walking to her green room and she said, “cool kids, I wish I could be like them” and, like, pointed at me and walked away. I was like, ‘What?!’ and I literally just had my mouth open. I actually told someone, ‘Tell her to come back out and take a picture with me!’